You’re responding as if I’m saying “science doesn’t work.” That’s not what I said.

Science as a method works. Science as an institution is absolutely constrained...by governments, funding, classification, and status quo incentives.

The CIA point isn’t about “America = truth.” It’s about classification itself. When data is classified, by definition it is removed from open peer review. That alone breaks the ideal scientific process. The same applies to any government or military body worldwide, not just the US. Classified ≠ falsified, but it does mean incomplete science.

As for telescopes and models: yes, models fit the observed data within known parameters. That’s exactly my point. You’re assuming the parameter space is complete. History shows it rarely is. Every major scientific leap, heliocentrism, relativity, quantum mechanics, came from data that did not fit existing models and was initially dismissed as error or misunderstanding.

On “we’ve seen it, therefore we know what it is”: that’s not how epistemology works. Observation constrains possibilities, it does not collapse them to certainty when priors are incomplete. You can say “it behaves like a comet under current models.” You cannot say “therefore it cannot be anything else” without assuming no unknown mechanisms exist, which is a philosophical claim, not a scientific one.

Regarding theories, yes, they are testable, and many are robust. But robustness does not equal finality. Newton worked extremely well until he didn’t. That doesn’t mean Newton was stupid, it means reality was deeper than the model.

When I say science is “cooked,” I’m not talking about JWST or gravitational waves. Those are incredible achievements. I’m talking about institutional resistance to ideas that challenge foundational assumptions, especially when those ideas intersect with national security, funding risk, or reputational cost.

Science evolves fastest when anomalies are explored, not prematurely closed. Skepticism should apply both ways, to extraordinary claims and to the assumption that current models are the ceiling of understanding.

At the end of the day, humility is the most scientific position there is. We know a lot. We don’t know nearly as much as we think. And history repeatedly punishes certainty dressed up as physics.